Disney’s Broadway boss works on G-rated productions — but creates an X-rated workplace, colleagues claim in a new report. In an article published a day before his stage adaptation of “Frozen” opens in previews on the Great White Way, the Wall Street Journal reports that Disney Theatrical Productions president and producer Thomas Schumacher has a history of sexual harassment and making incredibly inappropriate remarks to co-workers. While previously working for the House of Mouse’s animation arm — where he was involved with “The Lion King” and “Pocahontas” — Schumacher allegedly made “salacious and inappropriate” remarks to a subordinate named Bruce Williams, including

Comments:One look at this person´s eyewear tells the tale. Disney, meanwhile, seems to be OK with slobs like this working on entertainment for kids. #TheyKnew.

Walt Disney did have two sides. His public persona and his private one. He did insist on hard work and quality. Walt would no longer recognize his creation today. I do believe animators from every studio that ever produced a cartoon would try and slip things into their works. I recall a cartoon where microphones were used and they resembled penises.

Washington – Sen. Elizabeth Warren batted down calls for her to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage in an interview that aired Sunday. “I know who I am. And never used it for anything. Never got any benefit from it anywhere,” Warren said of her ancestry on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The Massachusetts Democrat has been under increased pressure to provide evidence of ?her ?Native American roots, with President Trump repeatedly mocking her as “Pocahontas” as recently as Saturday. An editorial this month in Massachusetts’s Berkshire Eagle urged Warren to buy a DNA test for $99 to resolve the

An Alabama teenager has been charged with manslaughter and possessing a firearm illegally after a 17-year-old student was killed in a high school shooting on Wednesday. Michael Jerome Barber, 17, was charged on Friday for the death of Courtlin Arrington. Authorities initially investigated the shooting at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Alabama, as accidental before they reviewed the security footage and filed charges. (Snip) The superintendent said Huffman had more than 43 entry points with a combination of wand and stationary metal detectors in place, but they were not in use Wednesday. She didn´t give details about why.

Birmingham, Ala. - Metal detectors at an Alabama high school were not in use the day a 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting on campus, the district´s superintendent said Thursday. Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring said the school system is reviewing security measures and protocols that were in place Wednesday, when Courtlin Arrington was fatally shot in a classroom at Huffman High School. (Snip) The superintendent said Huffman has more than 43 entry points with a combination of wand and stationary metal detectors in place, but they were not in use Wednesday. She didn´t give details about why.

A photo of a student who had painted his face black to impersonate an African-American figure sparked outrage among Miami Catholic school alumni after it was shared online. The photo was taken during a Black History Month celebration at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School in Miami, the Miami Herald reported. Fourth-grade students had been asked to dress up as famous African-Americans while presenting on them. A student who chose former Secretary of State Colin Powell wore “blackface” as part his costume. (Snip) Archdiocese of Miami spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta said the child had not meant to be offensive.

Tallahassee – After hours of divisive debate over guns, schools and freedom, the Florida Senate spent less than a minute Tuesday and voted on something they all could agree on: daylight. The Senate voted 33-2 to send a bill to Gov. Rick Scott to ask the U.S. Congress to decide whether Florida should be a state that enjoys daylight saving time year-round. It was passed by the House on Feb. 14, 103-11. Under the plan, HB 1013, called the “Sunshine Protection Act,” the state would ask Congress to pass a law to let the Sunshine State move from standard time to daylight saving

Four Eritrean asylum seekers have claimed they were juveniles when they allegedly gang raped a 56-year-old woman in Germany and filmed the attack. A woman was collecting bottles in Dessau in the northern German state of Saxony-Anhalt in August when four individuals, who experts say were at least in their 20s, approached her. They told her that they had seen some bottles she had missed in a remote part of a disused school and attacked her when she went there, it is alleged. (Snip) Age is important in the case because in Germany, defendants under the age of 21 are prosecuted

An Afghan man has been arrested after four people were injured in two knife attacks in Vienna, Austria. Three pedestrians were attacked at random by a man wielding a knife near the capital´s famous Prater Park at around 7.45pm local time. Police say that the three victims hurt in the stabbing frenzy were a family, including a father, mother and their daughter, 17. Then 30 minutes later, another person was seriously injured in a separate attack at Praterstern. A police spokesman confirmed all the victims were Austrian. One eyewitness said the attack happened in front of a Japanese restaurant near the U1 Nestroyplatz

Sweden’s prime minister, who criticized President Trump last year for blaming Swedish violence on Muslim refugees, said Tuesday that he’s cracking down on immigration and gang violence to make Sweden great again. At a White House news conference with Mr. Trump at his side, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven spoke of his own Trump-like agenda of implementing tougher laws on immigration and crime, and of spending more money on law enforcement. “We have our share of domestic challenges, no doubt about that,” Mr. Lofven said. (Snip) It sounded very much like Mr. Trump’s rhetoric against the MS-13 gang members

A firebrand South African politician has vowed to unseat a white mayor after praising plans to hand land to black people. Julius Malema, 37, who leads the country´s Economic Freedom Fighters opposition party, said he wanted to ´remove´ Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip specifically because he ´is a white man´. He told a packed arena in Johannesburg that ´we are starting with this whiteness. We are cutting the throat of whiteness´. (Snip) ´We are not going to listen to any Britain, we are not going to listen to European Parliament, we are not going to listen to UN - we are

The under-side of one of the largest floating ice shelves in the southern oceans is not melting as expected, according to experts. Scientists drilling along the western coast of Antarctica found that the Ross Ice Shelf is actually freezing - but they have no idea why. (Snip) Researchers from New Zealand used a hot water drill to dig deep into the floating ice shelf, roughly the size of Spain and around half a mile thick (1km). Experts then lowered a camera into the hole they had melted, using a thermometer and other instruments to study the ice shelf´s history. Rather than finding the

A recent discovery about an Alzheimer´s drug may lead to the end of cavity fillings in teeth as we know them. Scientists discovered the drug, Tideglusib, promoted natural tooth regrowth during its clinical trials on mice, which led to total repair of cavities. They learned the drug stimulates stem cells in teeth, which creates new dentine — the substance beneath tooth enamel that´s eroded by decay when a cavity forms. When the researchers realized the drug was promoting tooth regeneration, they soaked collagen fillers in Tideglusib, inserted them into cavities and saw the tooth craters disappear within six weeks. After the collagen

A man broke down on the witness stand Wednesday as he described the first time he saw the bloody torso of a man who had been beaten and dismembered in 2014. Dennis Austin, who testified in the murder trial of Gabriel Moreno, looked physically ill after prosecutors showed him a photograph of the decaying remains of Jose Luis Menchaca, 35, who was beaten and dismembered, his limbs burned on a barbecue pit. Moreno is the first of three suspects to be tried in the case. Co-defendants Daniel Moreno Lopez and his girlfriend, Candie Dominguez, each charged with murder, are awaiting

Fox News is in sleazy Watters yet again. The network’s prominent host Jesse Watters — who dined on Monday with President Trump — is in the midst of divorce due to an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer. Watters’ wife, Noelle Watters, filed for divorce in October. The couple has twin girls. Sources said the 39-year-old host informed the network of his adulterous relationship with Emma DiGiovine shortly after Noelle filed divorce papers. DiGiovine was transferred to “The Ingraham Angle.” DiGiovine and Watters are still dating, sources said. A woman at DiGiovine’s home in Cranford, N.J., declined to comment.

Washington – Sen. Elizabeth Warren batted down calls for her to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage in an interview that aired Sunday. “I know who I am. And never used it for anything. Never got any benefit from it anywhere,” Warren said of her ancestry on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The Massachusetts Democrat has been under increased pressure to provide evidence of ?her ?Native American roots, with President Trump repeatedly mocking her as “Pocahontas” as recently as Saturday. An editorial this month in Massachusetts’s Berkshire Eagle urged Warren to buy a DNA test for $99 to resolve the

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she isn´t running for president in 2020. "I am not running for president in 2020," Warren told CNN´s Jim Acosta on Saturday. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and staunch critic of President Donald Trump, made the statement in an interview for CNN´s "State of the Union," scheduled to air at 9 a.m., ET, on Sunday. The lawmaker said the same thing to Chuck Todd of NBC News in an interview for "Meet the Press" when pressed about her Senate re-election campaign and her pledge to fulfill her six-year term. "For the people of Massachusetts, and for the

The Democrats are trying to make something out of Donald Trump’s alleged dalliance, twelve years ago, with porn performer Stormy Daniels. I wrote about it here. Frankly, I don’t think anyone cares. But the story is interesting because it raises questions about what, in our era, constitutes a scandal. Trump’s long-ago romps with Daniels–assuming the stories are true–don’t qualify. There is one person, of course, who has a right to be outraged and probably is, but Melania doesn’t work for the Washington Post or the New York Times, and what she makes of the story is none of our business. Worst case,

So Barack Obama is in talks with Netflix, The New York Times reports, “to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure” from relevance last year. High profile? Global platform? Uh, won’t the ratings determine whether this is really high-profile TV, or just another big payday Obama didn’t come near earning on his own merits, like every other damn thing that’s been handed to him throughout his pampered, indolent life? (Snip) What can I say except to paraphrase one of Dear Leader’s most memorable statements: “If you like your Netflix, you can

“When I was born,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said through a plume of smoke, “you had all these movements. You had the anti-Vietnam War movement, you had the Panthers, you had King’s nonviolent movement, you had N.A.A.C.P., you had black power — all this flurry of activity. Then Dr. King gets killed. And what happened? Who won the election in ’68? Richard Nixon.” Folded into a far corner of the Grand Havana Room, a private Midtown cigar club on the penthouse floor of 666 Fifth Avenue, Mr. Sharpton looked downright stately. Reporters have tagged along with him to the Grand Havana

Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte Coffee refuses to serve police due to a concern for the “safety of customers.” The policy came to light after NBC Bay Area reported the coffee shop refused to serve an officer in uniform on February 16. KCRA reports that the store took to social media, saying, “We have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.” An Instagram post by Hasta Muerte provides an overview of the store’s position, saying in part: We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan said she did not call President Donald Trump a “Neanderthal” as he claimed at a rally on Saturday because “that would not be fair” to Neanderthals who had a “certain artistic complexity.” Partial transcript as follows: CHUCK TODD: I’ve got to bring up last night’s rally a little bit. Because to me, it was a culmination of a week that he loved — he loved his presidency this week. This was the presidency he dreamed of. But what was funny was about how he sort of mocked the

A video of a woman named Perla Morales-Luna getting arrested by Border Patrol agents in California while her daughters look on has sparked outrage after it spread across social media.The video shows Morales-Luna, who authorities publicly identified, getting pushed into a border patrol vehicle on March 3 while her children watched in National City, California. Teaching aide Judith Castro-Gonzalez posted the video to Facebook on Thursday, according to CBS Los Angeles, reportedly stating that one of Morales-Luna’s daughters was her student. Subsequently, the video quickly made the rounds on social media. The San Diego branch of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

(Video) - President Trump reserved special wrath for NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd at a Pennsylvania campaign rally for congressional candidate Rick Saccone on Saturday night, referring to him as a “sleeping son of a b---h.” And Todd has wasted little time addressing the jab. (Snip) “I bring my kids up to respect the office of the presidency and the president. I don’t allow them to say anything negative, ever, about the president,” Todd said. “It creates a challenge to all parents when he uses vulgarities like that.” The president’s use of an epithet also drew the ire of veteran broadcaster Tom Brokaw, who expressed

The last NYPD cops assigned full-time to New York City public schools are being moved out — despite nationwide calls for heightened security in the wake of last month’s Florida shootings. As the nation mourned the 17 victims of the school massacre at Parkland, Fla., the NYPD was removing Sgt. Raul Espinet from his post at Francis Lewis HS in Fresh Meadows, Queens — where he had worked for more than a dozen years. Parents, teachers and students are livid over the beloved cop’s departure. “My colleagues think it’s outrageous — and really stupid,” teacher Arthur Goldstein said. “We’re not

Brighton & Hove City Council will equip staff with badges declaring their “preferred pronouns” as part of a project seeking to educate the public that making assumptions about a person’s sex “can be hurtful and distressing”. Council and voluntary sector staff in the city will be “encouraged” to wear the badges, which include messages such as “My pronouns are she/her/hers” and “My pronouns are they/their/theirs” when they are distributed in the week leading up to ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ on March 31. (Snip) The badges will come in a range of different designs reading “My pronoun is”, including customisable ones on which people